Samir's Portfolio

Tag: Web

  • Personal Journey Reflection of a Web Design & Development – Freshman Year

    Personal Journey Reflection of a Web Design & Development – Freshman Year

    In this blog post, I’m gonna be reflecting over my journey in web design & development throughout my freshman year. I’ll be sharing the insights, & growths that I experienced from this growing year of my education. Additionally, I’m gonna be addressing some key concepts, projects, or techniques that significantly affected my learning journey. In this post, I aim to give my personal perspective on my early beginnings of web development & designing education.

    Some foundational concepts I learned this year are HTML and CSS. These were heavily taught throughout the year and were constantly honed to be better as the year went on. HTML and CSS were the main concepts to be learned of the year. They contributed to my growth because they showed me a glimpse of how code behaved & how it can be manipulated. It also contributed to my growth because they are how websites are made, and so learning them would help me in my web development journey.

    Some projects that stood out to me are the animal project and the country website. These stood out to me because they were reliant on what I could do, and I didn’t have a foundation of how to make the website or what to make it look like. It was all up to my own creativity and imagination to create the website. Additionally, because I was forced to use my own creativity & resources, it forced me to grow. It forced my skills to improve because I had to improvise & figure out ways to do things myself.

    I’ve made a lot of progress throughout this year and have a lot of goals for the upcoming years in web development. I plan to learn Javascript & learn how to create more responsive websites.

    Overall, this year has shown me a lot in web development & design. I think I learned a lot for a first year, & I hope to learn more in the coming years of my education. I learned many fundamental concepts that built a base for me to build upon with the coming years. Additionally, projects honed & strengthened my web development skills throughout the year. I think this year was very satisfactory for learning web development.

  • How to Talk to a Web Developer

    How to Talk to a Web Developer

    Collaboration is really important when you’re a web developer. When you’re working on a group project, it’s real important that you make sure to talk to your group mates and share your ideas. Good communication is what makes the web development easier for the entire group. In web development, everybody is going to be working on their own share of the project, and each share is most likely different from another. If nobody’s sharing progress, we have no way to tell where everybody else is at. However, if we communicate better, we can make sure that everybody is on the same page & fix errors and just overall make the entire process a lot smoother.

    Understanding basic Web Development concepts is important because it helps you have more smooth conversations with people when you’re discussing about it. When people talk about web design, people can throw in words like: HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, etc.. It’s important that you already know the concept and meaning of those words before hand so you know what the person is talking about. Additionally, when we understand basic concepts, it can also helps in the creation of websites, because you will know the terms for some things you see as you develop.

    Asking questions and for clarifications is a good habit to make when you’re puzzled over something in a group work. You should always be respectful when you’re asking the question/asking for clarification. Things like ‘excuse me’ or ‘can you please elaborate’ are things you can say. You should also be more specific with your question. For example, instead of saying something like ‘I don’t know how to do this’, say ‘how do you center a div'(if that’s what you’re trying to do). Additionally, you should always be paying attention and focused so that you do not have to be asking any questions or for any clarifications, but make sure to follow these basic rules if you ever do have the need to do so.

    Clarifying Questions

    Collaboration is key web development. When you’re working in a group coordinated work, it’s important that you’re talking with your group mates to keep in touch on the group progress. Additionally, it’s important to understand basic web development concepts because it can help make conversations with other developers smoother when you have a basic understanding of different concepts. When you’re in doubts or confused about something, you should always try to ask or clarify about it to your group mates, but do try to pay attention in the first place. Being attentive in the end will usually not require any clarification. By going by these principles, we can make collaboration in Web development more efficient.